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The Hastings Center: Should we enroll our child in a COVID-19 vaccine trial?

May 5, 2021

Should we enroll our child in a COVID-19 vaccine trial? The topic is one that Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, an assistant professor in the UC Department of Pediatrics, tackles in an opinion piece with The Hastings Center. Lanphier is also a clinical ethicist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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The Cincinnati Herald: Local panel discusses COVID-19 impact on communities of color

December 7, 2020

The Collaboration Network hosted a virtual conference on Racial and Health Inequities Exposed by COVID-19 Thursday, November 19 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Andrew Beck, MD, a Cincinnati Children’s physician and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, and Karen Bankston, PhD, professor of emerita of the UC College of Nursing, were among those who discussed and presented regional data about COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on communities of color in Greater Cincinnati.

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The New York Times: School Closures in the Spring Saved Lives, Study Asserts

August 4, 2020

Katherine Auger, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC associate professor of pediatrics, and Samir Shah, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC professor of pediatrics, are authors of a new COVID-19 study in the Journal of American Medical Association,. It found that closing schools across most of the U.S. in March, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, likely reduced infections by 1 million and saved more than 40,000 people from dying due to the virus.

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WCPO: Racial gap widens as COVID-19 pandemic continues

November 20, 2020

The Collaboration Network held a virtual conference on Racial and Health Inequities Exposed by COVID-19 featuring several presentations for the Cincinnati community including discussions or commentary from Andrew Beck, MD, a Cincinnati Children’s physician and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati; Karen Bankston, PhD, professor of emerita of the UC College of Nursing; and Amy Rule, MD, a Cincinnati Children’s physician and assistant professor of pediatrics at UC.

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Boosting treatments for metastatic melanoma

November 5, 2020

University of Cincinnati clinician-scientist Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, says that new findings from her team might have identified a treatment-boosting drug to enhance therapies for metastatic cancer and make them more effective.